Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely you are to fall asleep.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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